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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
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LinkedIn: Vasu Jakkal and Jeremy Dallman
Forums: Hacker News and r/InfoSecNews
| Financial Times: |
The UK concedes that Ofcom would only use the Online Safety Bill to force companies to scan encrypted messaging apps when it's “technically feasible” to do so — Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
More: Wired, Daring Fireball, Wired, BBC, TechRadar, Apple Must, SiliconANGLE, CyberScoop, PhoneArena, Bloomberg, PaymentSecurity.io, TechCrunch, Cybernews.com, Computerworld, Cult of Mac, and Supercharged
Threads: @benedictevans. Mastodon: @glennf@twit.social, @JamesBaker@social …, @fj@mastodon.social, @fj@mastodon.social, @Mer__edith@mastodon.world, and @element@mastodon.matrix.org. Bluesky: @martinsfp.bsky.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/ukpolitics, and Slashdot
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU designates Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as DMA gatekeepers, and will assess if some Microsoft services and iMessage qualify — - Tech firms set to challenge EU in digital antitrust clampdown — Apple's App Store, Google Search, Amazon marketplace on list
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, r/technology, r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app” — Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” …
More: Clubhouse Blog, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Information, The Information, and BGR
Threads: @carnage4life, @chris, and @crumbler
Bluesky: @mhwilliams.bsky.social and @caseynewton.bsky.social
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang — Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.
More: MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, Neowin, Cult of Mac, Wccftech, Supercharged, BGR, and 9to5Mac
| New York Times: |
A look at US et al v. Google, the federal government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, set to last 10 weeks; top executives will likely testify — The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
More: New York Post, The Register, and The Week
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
More: Android Police. X: @kent_walker, @quinnypig, @lutherlowe, @killedbygoogle, and @lewis_crofts. LinkedIn: Brian Feldman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
More: The Information, GeekWire, Bloomberg, CNBC, FreightWaves, The Information, and Fortune
X: @davehclark, @devahaz, @davehclark, @typesfast, @rrpre, @alexrkonrad, @typesfast, @ericnewcomer, and @jakeswearingen. Forums: Hacker News
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
More: The Hill, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, The Verge, Reuters, Axios, Financial Times, Politico, and Search Engine Land
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI announces its first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6 in San Francisco, and plans to livestream a keynote presentation — OpenAI will host its first developer conference this fall, as the ChatGPT-maker looks to bolster interest in its products while facing growing competition …
More: OpenAI, San Francisco Business Journal, TechCrunch, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @sama and @scobleizer
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing making song lyrics a Premium-only feature, currently “with a limited number of users in a pair of markets” — A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song …
More: PCMag, BGR, Dexerto, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, and 9to5Mac
Forums: r/truespotify and r/popheads
| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
California Gov. Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, instructing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools — Gavin Newsom touted Silicon Valley's AI dominance, but warns of a “Pandora's box.” — The state of California has entered …
More: Executive Department, State of California, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, StateScoop, The Hill, Washington Post, The Messenger, San Francisco Chronicle, Politico, California Globe, and UC Berkeley
X: @cagovernor, @kent_walker, @stanfordhai, and @brandonrichards
LinkedIn: Fei-Fei Li and Brad Stone
| Reuters: |
Filing: Google tentatively settles a US Play Store class action antitrust lawsuit brought by 30+ states and representing 21M+ customers; the court must approve — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday tentatively settled a class action suit alleging that its U.S. Play Store … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube … | Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: data analytics software company Alteryx has been working with an investment bank to explore a sale after attracting takeover interest; AYX jumps 13%+ — Alteryx Inc (AYX.N), a data analytics software company with a market value of $2.2 billion, has been working with an investment bank …
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Google started rolling out Chrome's Enhanced Ad Privacy, part of its Topics API, via a popup; some say the Got It button is misleading for leaving tracking on — YMMV, based on where you are — Google has been gradually rolling out Chrome's “Enhanced Ad Privacy.”
Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social. X: @wdormann, @matthew_d_green, @brave, @protonprivacy, @uk_daniel_card, @lukemulks, @mebeim, and @matthew_d_green
Forums: Hacker News, r/google, r/degoogle, and r/privacy
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Mozilla finds that all 25 major car brands the company examined fail to adhere to the most basic privacy and security standards in new internet-connected models — Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand's new internet-connected models flunked privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla.
More: Mozilla Foundation, The Verge, Ars Technica, NBC News, New York Post, Engadget, SlashGear, OSnews, MobileSyrup, Fast Company, PCMag, The Hill, Internet of Things News, Fortune, Tech.co, HotHardware, Mozilla Foundation, VICE, Mozilla Foundation, The Register, Mozilla Foundation, and Mozilla Foundation
Mastodon: @TheWarOnCars@mastodon.social, @interfluidity@econtwitter.net, @carnage4life@mas.to, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @nazgul@infosec.exchange, @emmalbriant@mastodon.online, and @mlippert@vmst.io
X: @mattjamesboyle, @whuiskamp, and @evacide
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/teslamotors, r/Futurology, r/technews, r/technews, r/RealTesla, r/cars, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter” — Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year.
More: The Verge, Slack, CNET, Axios, TechCircle, Neowin, VentureBeat, Salesforce, Computerworld, CIO Dive, ITPro, Emerging Tech Brew, SiliconANGLE, Tech Monitor, and diginomica
| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China widens its ban on using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work, or bringing them to the office, to all central government agencies — The directive is the latest step in Beijing's campaign to cut reliance on foreign technology and could hurt Apple's business in the country.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT review: great for 1440p gaming and less power hungry but the 7800 XT barely outperforms the 6800 XT and older GPUs may suffice — It's hard to get excited about yesterday's performance at yesterday's prices. — Nearly a year ago, Nvidia kicked off this GPU generation with its GeForce RTX 4090.
More: Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, Eurogamer.net, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, TechPowerUp, KitGuru, and The Verge
X: @wsjudd, @amdradeon, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/Amd and Ars OpenForum
| CNBC: |
Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on August 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products — - Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday.
More: Reuters
| Caitlin Harrington / Wired: |
The CWA files charges with the US NLRB against Grindr, alleging the company laid off 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate — Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office.
X: @zackmoran12, @polclarissou, @caitharr, and @waterslicer
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